Quotes tagged with 'adventure'

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
—Edward Abbey adventure life

No distance, not even remote mountains and vast oceans can ever prevent people with perseverance from reaching their destination.
—Chinese Adage adventure life

Those who dare seek, shall find what they are seeking for.
—Lailah Gifty Akita adventure life

If you want something you have never had, you must he willing to do something you have never done.
—Unknown Author adventure life

I’m a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.
—Brigitte Bardot adventure

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
—Ibn Battuta adventure

Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.
—Roy T. Bennett adventure life

Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure.
—Bob Bitchin / Letters from the Lost Soul adventure life

And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.
—Bob Bitchin / Letters from the Lost Soul adventure

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
—Lewis Carroll / Alice in Wonderland adventure

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
—George Eliot adventure

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
—T. S. Elliot adventure

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
—J. K. Rowling adventure

So why is it then? Why is it that people still come out here? Out into the middle of the middle of nowhere, a place that isn't even a place at all but just liquid space filled with nothingness...why is it then that such a nonexistent point that can only be properly designated with numbers, as it has no discernible geography by which to be otherwise identified, why then of all the parts of this planet does the sea tend to draw out a person's inner most thoughts and feelings about everything the world is and everything a person could possibly find themselves made of? Seems silly doesn't it? Maybe it is, but that's what happens eventually...to anyone who is ready for it
—Tracy S. adventure sailing

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
—Carl Sagan adventure

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.
—Carl Sagan / Pale Blue Dot adventure

Below 50 degrees south there is no law. Below 60 degrees south there is no God.
—Old Sailor Proverb adventure god sailing

Now - bring me that horizon.
—Captain Jack Sparrow adventure

When you see the Southern Cross for the first time you understand now why you came this way.
—Stephen Stills / CSN - 1982 adventure sailing

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.
—Trenton Lee Stuart adventure